Automated system of planning calculations of Gosplan of the USSR and technological restrictions of implementing ECM into the state management in the USSR

Abstract

the article deals with analysis of Pilot Project of the Automated system of planning calculations of State Planning Committee [Gosplan] of the USSR (ASPC) [ASPR] and of organizational and technological restrictions whereunder it was developed. It is shown that it maintained the basic features of the projects of USCCN and USAS [OGAS] (both earlier described in historical references), while the introduced alterations were caused not by the Soviet bureaucracy’s opponency to the very idea of computerization of the planning (nowadays, this rendering is dominating in the historiography) but by organizational and engineering problems which expressly came into view by the end of the 1960s.